About the Authors

Xing-Hai Yao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Hoa K. Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

B. L. Grégoire Nyomba

bnyomba@cc.umanitoba.ca

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Manuscript revision and approval: BLN HKN XHY. Conceived and designed the experiments: BLN XHY. Performed the experiments: XHY HKN. Analyzed the data: XHY BLN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLN. Wrote the paper: XHY BLN.